Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 16:52:27 11/01/05
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On November 01, 2005 at 00:25:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 31, 2005 at 22:34:43, Horst Biewald wrote: > >>Good day Gentleman, This is kind of a silly question, the new Nalimov Tablebase >>6-piece is available, but i would like to know if that is the same as the >>3-4-5 Tablebase? I would guess yes, but included the extra piece analysis. >>Also, it's such a large database to download (100G) can you have an engine game >>by just reading off the DVD? Thank You! Horst B. > >The format is not exactly the same for the big database files. > >For this reason, you will have to have a program that uses Eugene's more recent >code to be able to read them. In other words, some older programs will not >understand the files that are bigger than 5 men files. correct >A way to find out if the program you want to use with the big 6 man files works >with them is to download the smallest one from the set and try a test with it. No, that is not enough. There are a couple of versions of Eugene Nalimov's code. Some versions will work well with KNNNKN (this was the smallest download some time ago) but will not work with TBs created more recently. Regards, Dieter
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